Will Ferrell’s still got the magic touch — sort of. Yes, his basketball comedy “Semi-Pro” took first place in its opening debut at the box office. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it only earned a disappointing $15 million. What’s so bad about that? Because...

Leave it to Will Ferrell to do brilliant cross-promotion of his sports movies. His latest is “Semi-Pro”, a basketball comedy, and instead of showing up at the NBA All-Stars game, what does he do? He shows up in Sports Illustrated’s 2008 Swimsuit Issue with a half-naked Heidi Klum groping...

Will Ferrell is slowly but surely conquering the world of Hollywood Sports Movie Comedies, counting among his successes the skating movie “Blades of Glory”, soccer in “Kicking & Screaming”, and the car racing movie “Talledega Nights”. His latest is the basketball...

Will Ferrell is an afro-wearing basketball player (well, sort of) who wrestles a bear, jumps over cheerleaders, and shoots free throws underhanded. Somewhere between doing those things, I’m guessing he finds time to romance Maura Tierney, the female lead in the sports comedy. Here’s your...

Will Ferrell is a vastly talented individual, but I think he’s unfortunately been slapped with the Jim Carrey curse — yes, he can stretch his acting chops (”Stranger than Fiction”, “Winter Passing”), but the audience doesn’t want him to. Then again, life could...